Qualcomm still going to make datacentre chips
Published in Cloud


Kills rumours

Qualcomm has no plans to abandon its efforts to create processors for data centres, despite rumours that it is giving up on the idea.

Intel discrete graphics to arrive in 2020
Published in Graphics


SVP Raja Koduri confirms

Intel’s chief architect, senior vice president of the newly formed Core and Visual Computing Group, ex. Radeon Technology guru Raja Koduri has confirmed on Twitter that its discrete graphics will come in 2020.

Core i7-8086K gets delidded and overclocked to 7,243MHz
Published in PC Hardware


By Roman "Der8auer" Hartung

We already had a hunch that Intel's 40th anniversary Core i7-8086K could be an impressive overclocker and Roman "Der8auer" Hartung has already delidded it and overclocked it to an impressive 7,243MHz under LN2.

Intel: X86 not sexy, oily data is
Published in News
Friday, 08 June 2018 12:26

Intel: X86 not sexy, oily data is


Submerge yourself in a deep data lake

The CEO of chip giant Intel has looked into his crystal ball, read some tea leaves and shuffled his Tarot cards and predicted that Big Data will have the same impact on human existence as oil.

Intel pulls a surprise with 28-core CPU at Computex
Published in PC Hardware


Coming in the Q4 2018

Intel has pulled quite a rabbit out of its hat at the Computex 2018 press conference by unveiling and showing a running 28-core consumer CPU which should be available by the end of the year.

Intel officially launches Core i7-8086K limited edition CPU
Published in PC Hardware


40th anniversary with 5.0GHz Turbo

Following the recent leaks and in order to celebrate the 40th anniversary since the release of the original 8086 processor, Intel has now - as expected - introduced the Core i7-8086K, an unlocked 6-core CPU with a base clock of 4.0GHz and Turbo clock hitting 5.0GHz.

Sprint in bed with Qualcomm and Intel
Published in Network
Tuesday, 05 June 2018 11:51

Sprint in bed with Qualcomm and Intel


Free data for Snapdragon PC/sell 5G in 2019 for Intel

Sprint just made two big announcements one with Qualcomm about its 4G always connected PC and one with Intel for its 2019 5G PCs.

Intel's Core i7-8086K should cost under £400
Published in PC Hardware


Available as of June 8th

It appears that Intel's 40th anniversary Core i7-8086K CPU won't be that pricy and should sell for under £400 when it starts selling on June 8th, at least according to the latest report.

ARM shakes fist at X86 notebook hegemony
Published in News
Thursday, 31 May 2018 18:34

ARM shakes fist at X86 notebook hegemony


And Microsoft seems keen too...

We've waited years and years for ARM to offer a real challenge to Intel on the notebook front, and judging from what the company announced today in Old Taiwan, 2019 could be when Chipzilla discovers it has an Achilles' heel. Intel isn't invulnerable, despite its size, demonstrated, for example,  by the way it totally missed the boat on the smartphone front.

Intel releases Optane DIMMs
Published in PC Hardware
Thursday, 31 May 2018 11:48

Intel releases Optane DIMMs


3D XPoint memory onto the DDR4

Chipzilla has released its Optane DIMMs and introduced 3D XPoint memory onto the DDR4 memory bus although don't expect to see them any time soon.